Most projects branch the code when changing major releases. I would  
like to be able to pull the 1.4 branch from CVS.

Yes, I could just take the 1.4 source tarball, but that doesn't work  
if we (someone) wants to produce (and distribute) a new release of an  
old version.

Some people cannot switch to version 2.0 for a variety of releases,  
so they are stuck using 1.4.

By not branching the 1.4.8 code, it is much more difficult to produce  
a 1.4.9 version (if desired), that might contain the user contributed  
patches to the version, or critical bug fixes.

You could review the Apache projects to see how this works (and how  
useful it is). Every major open-source project I've worked with uses  
CVS branches - except iText :)

Robert



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